So I was going to go around town and take a bunch of photos for my project today, but i woke up feeling kinda gross. I dont think its THE virus, buuuuuuut I better hole up just to be safe. So I was going to look up public domain images for the last few backgrounds.
Then my searching led me to this website. A whole bunch of gorgeous photos, all free to use and edit? Even for commercial purposes? SWEET! Ended up changing all of the backgrounds I already had to pics found on there. And I think I’ll stick with these for the full version. They’re just too darn good.
I also desaturated the characters (pic was taken before doing so), which somehow makes them look better. And apparently I messed up the other two enemy sprites and they don’t have transparent backgrounds and I don’t feel like dealing with that, so the only enemies in the demo are the orange drones. OH WELL.
And while I still 100% want to improve my artwork and redo these sprites for the full release, I am feeling much better about my artstyle than I have been the past couple of days. Yes, because the desaturated colors makes them look better, but also because I looked up free RenPy assets and the webpage I found had a lot of sprites that were very similar in style to mine. I was very surprised, and it made me feel better about myself. Hooray.